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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Trump craves good press from the ‘fake news’ media

A plug for a short article I published in The Conversation about the president's relationship with the media.
The president has attacked the media as “fake news” and journalists as “the enemy of the American people.”
The president’s anti-press assaults are so frequent and potent that newspapers across the United States banded together August 16 to publish simultaneous editorials defending the press’s important watchdog role in democracy.
But for all the president’s complaints, he also craves validation from the media. Trump has given exclusive interviews to The New York Times and, in addition to loving Fox News, reportedly watches CNN and MSNBC every morning.
Trump’s quest for good press is particularly evident in the White House newsletters, a daily email update sent to anyone who cares to subscribe online.
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I am an assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. I have been a newspaper reporter, a visiting professor at The George Washington University, and research director for the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet (IPDI).

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Articles about online comments

  • How dictators flourish through social media (Big Think, 4/14/19)
  • Why comments sections must die (Salon, 11/17/18)
  • The Internet Trolls Have Won. Sorry, There’s Not Much You Can Do (NYT, 8/8/18)
  • The Atlantic is killing its comments in favor of a new Letters section to showcase reader feedback (Nieman Lab, 2/2/18)
  • Keeping The Times Civil, 16 Million Comments and Counting (7/1/17, NYT)
  • The Times Sharply Increases Articles Open for Comments, Using Google’s Technology (NYT, 6/13/17)
  • What online comments can reveal about the person behind the keyboard (Globe and Mail, 5/17/17)
  • The Trend Of Killing News Comment Sections Because You 'Just Really Value Conversation' Stupidly Continues (9/23/15, Techdirt)
  • What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments (9/16/15, NiemanLab)
  • The Transition to Digital Journalism, Berkeley Advanced Media Institute (2014)
  • News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments (NYT, 4/11/10)
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